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Barcelona, Global City International Relations Master Plan 2020-2023 Barcelona, Global City International Relations Master Plan 2020-2023 Government Measure Barcelona City Council July 2020 PRESENTATION 3 CONTEXT AND VISION 5 BARCELONA, WITH GLOBAL MUNICIPALISM SINCE THE RECOVERY OF DEMOCRACY 5 BARCELONA, COMMITTED TOWARDS THE DIGITAL TRANSITION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 6 BARCELONA, EUROPEAN METROPOLIS 7 BARCELONA, CAPITAL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN 8 GREATER BARCELONA IN THE WORLD 9 STRATEGIC GOALS 10 PARTNERSHIPS AND ALLIANCES: BARCELONA, GLOBAL CITY 11 PROSPERITY: BARCELONA, CAPITAL OF TECHNOLOGICAL HUMANISM 13 PEOPLE: BARCELONA, CITY OF RIGHTS 15 PLANET: BARCELONA GREEN DEAL 16 PEACE: BARCELONA, CITY COMMITTED TO MULTILATERALISM 18 WORKING TOOLS 19 COORDINATION 19 CROSS-CUTTING 20 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND EXCHANGE OF IDEAS, EXPERIENCES, PRACTICES AND POLICIES 21 TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY 22 COMMUNICATION 23 ANNEXES 24 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS OF CITIES 24 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS PRESENT IN BARCELONA 26 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS PRESENT IN BARCELONA 26 OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTORS PRESENT IN BARCELONA 28 CONSULAR CORPS OF BARCELONA 29 NETWORKS, ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANISATION OF WHICH BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL FORMS PART 33 2 Presentation Barcelona is a city open to the world, which has made its foreign projection and internationalisation one of its main hallmarks. The Government Measure “Barcelona Global City” includes the first International Relations Master Plan of Barcelona City Council, but the vision and goals presented here have been inherited from the whole of the international action of the democratic City Council: progressive municipalism rooted in the city and with the aim of making the city a global player with a transforming vocation. This first Government Measure is being presented at a very specific time. Barcelona, like so many other cities in the world, has just gone through an unprecedented health crisis and is tackling an economic and social crisis of similarly exceptional dimensions. In this context, the international policy has been aimed at strengthening the municipal response to the pandemic, and is now at the service of the recovery. At the same time, in 2020 we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations, the 25th anniversary of the Declaration that launched the Barcelona Process for Euro-Mediterranean regional integration, and kicks off a new European budget that must respond to the threefold challenge of climate, social and digital. Barcelona has been a city committed to global municipalism since the recovery of democracy, with a strong historical international presence which has made it a benchmark for other cities in the world. As a European city, Barcelona has been a major player in the construction and reform of a European project based on the values of human rights, freedom, equality, democracy and solidarity. As a Mediterranean city, Barcelona has contributed to the process of redefining and joint action of one of the areas in the world most affected by climate change and where one of the most unequal borders between the global North and South is located. Barcelona’s commitment towards multilateral spaces - especially within the framework of city networks - is one of the backbones of the international relations policy presented here. The unequivocally progressive character of Barcelona and the current Municipal Government takes on a clearly global dimension in the current context. At a time when the model of social, economic and ecological development around the world is at stake, it is impossible to govern the city without thinking about the world. This Government Measure is a commitment to a transformative international relations policy that promotes and defends a city model based on social progress, human rights, technological humanism, climate justice and feminism. The Government Measure is based on the conviction that useful international action will only be possible if it is articulated as a cross-cutting public policy linked to the whole of government action. For this reason, the Master Plan proposes a model of international relations to advance the city as a global player, strengthening the provision of municipal services, and positioning Barcelona and its citizens in the world as a city of opportunities and rights. Thus, the Master Plan follows a structure that includes five major goals and twenty-four lines of work. 3 . In the first section presents the priority areas of action for international relations policy, collecting the legacy of the foreign policy of Mayors Serra, Maragall, Clos, Hereu and Trias and the first term of Mayor Ada Colau. This is followed by the presentation of the strategic goals of international relations policy, based around the principles (the ‘five Ps’) that sustain the main global political framework: the 2030 Agenda. The axes of partnership and alliances, prosperity, people, planet, and peace incorporate the political goals and lines of action that are being promoted from the Department of International Relations. This combination between principles and lines of action allows the city’s priorities to be linked with the global challenges and, at the same time, provide an international relations policy with objective elements that make it possible to set annual work agendas and carry out a suitable follow-up. In the third section, we outline the details of the instruments of action that will be promoted by the Department of International Relations in order to carry out a public policy of international relations at the service of all municipal services and government action, following principles of good governance: transparency and accountability; internal coordination; cross-cutting; management of the knowledge produced through international exchanges, and communication of the work done. 4 Context and vision Barcelona is a global city that has historically made a commitment towards internationalisation, taking into account two of its defining elements: Barcelona is a European and Mediterranean city. Its history is strongly marked by these two components, as are today's challenges. Its international role very much depends on how the city is positioned in relation to these axes, and in the geopolitical space that these mark. However, Barcelona isn’t starting from scratch. In recent decades, Barcelona has strengthened itself at an international, European and Mediterranean level, and in its projection abroad. In fact, the city's international presence is both the result of the work done by the City Council and the city's recognition and attractiveness. Nowadays, Barcelona is the headquarters of different international organisations and entities rooted in the city, which define it as a city and place it on the world stage. Barcelona, with global municipalism since the recovery of democracy The vocation for internationalisation of Barcelona began to be built with the first democratic City Council, during the time that Narcís Serra was mayor (1979-1982). Although it was not marked as a priority line for the city, the international projection quickly became a defining feature of the public policy promoted by the mayor's office and one of the main axes of the city. From this stage, the birth of the idea of an Olympic Games in Barcelona stands out, that would place the opening to the world as a city project. Based on this, during the period of Pasqual Maragall (1982-1997) the international projection deepened and expanded. The organisation of the Olympic Games in 1992 played a central role, but also the opening up of Barcelona's relations with the Mediterranean, which became crystallised in the conference, in 1995, which would lead to the beginning of the Barcelona Process. Mayor Maragall was a visionary in terms of the role of cities as global actors at a time when, unlike now, few people were involved: already in 1986, Barcelona promoted the network of major European cities, Eurocities along with the cities of Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Lyon, Milan and Birmingham. The netowrk was finally created in 1989. At a European level, the internationalist vocation of the City Council took the form of the presidency of Pasqual Maragall of the Committee of the Regions (1996-1997) and Barcelona’s commitment to solidarity, especially with Sarajevo and the creation of District 11. During the terms of Mayor Joan Clos (1997-2006), the City Council took specific steps to provide the city with the infrastructure and international weight required to implement this vision of cities as international actors: at a global level, Clos would be the first chair of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities, and the first mayor in history to address the UN General Assembly. In addition, notable networks of cities such as UCLG and Metropolis were established in Barcelona, and bodies were set up and strengthened that have facilitated the city's positioning in various regions of the world (Casa Asia, Casa América Catalunya, IEMed – The European Institute of the Mediterranean, etc.). Beyond the presence of international network headquarters in 5 Barcelona, progress was made in active participation within them, ensuring the city's contribution both to political positions in the face of international processes and in spaces for the exchange of experiences and knowledge transfer. With these spaces consolidated, in the subsequent terms of the Mayors Jordi Hereu (2006-2011) and Xavier Trias (2011-2015), the city made a commitment to the opening of Barcelona to other regions
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